U.S. v. SYUFY ENTERPRISES

No. 89-15475.

903 F.2d 659 (1990)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SYUFY ENTERPRISES; Raymond J. Syufy, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided May 9, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert B. Nicholson, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-appellant.

Maxwell M Blecher, Blecher & Collins, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants-appellees.

Before WIGGINS and KOZINSKI, Circuit Judges, and QUACKENBUSH, District Judge.


KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge:

Suspect that giant film distributors like Columbia, Paramount and Twentieth Century-Fox had fallen prey to Raymond Syufy, the canny operator of a chain of Las Vegas, Nevada, movie theatres, the United States Department of Justice brought this civil antitrust action to force Syufy to disgorge the theatres he had purchased in 1982-84 from his former competitors. The case is unusual in a number of respects: The Department of Justice concedes...

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